The High Representative for Security Policy considered this Monday, December 1st, that this week “could be crucial” to reach an agreement to end the conflict in Ukraine, but criticized the fact that the European Union (EU) is absent from the negotiations.
“This week could be crucial for diplomacy,” said Kaja Kallas, at the entrance to a ministerial meeting in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and home to the main EU institutions.
The high representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European community bloc acknowledged that there were “difficult but productive discussions” between the Ukrainian authorities and the United States of America (USA), to change the peace plan proposal that included 28 initial points, namely the cession of occupied territories to Russia.
“I still don’t know the results [destas reuniões]but I will talk to the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs of Ukraine”, commented the former Prime Minister of Estonia.
However, Kaja Kallas criticized the exclusion of the European Union from the entire process.
“The Ukrainians are there alone [nas reuniões com Washington]if they were with us they would be in a stronger position”, he maintained.
The EU’s high diplomat representative also criticized the fact that the proposal presented by US President Donald Trump includes a point about reducing by half the number of soldiers who make up the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“If there is pressure on the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which have never invaded anyone, there should also be pressure on those of Russia, just look at all the countries it invaded in the last 100 years”, he added, alluding to the countries conquered by the then Soviet Union, including Estonia, and after the dissolution of this bloc.